Video format codes are not listed anywhere

[jameshfisher]

The --help text refers to "video format codes", but nowhere are these listed or defined. It gives the example of "17" as a format code (for the mobile version), which seems arbitrary to me. I couldn't find the codes in the source. My expectation of a "format code" would be something like "720p", "480p", "320p", or "240p". Do the used numeric codes correspond to these, and if so how?

[rg3]

See the "YouTube formats" section in the program webpage.

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

[jameshfisher]

Ah, didn't see that. Could we include the Wikipedia URL in the --help text?

[rg3]

That would be too long, and the official documentation has always been the webpage. The --help text is, like most help texts, a quick reference to find all the options at a glance. However, I think I'll reorganize the webpage and add an index at the top, so that the formats section will be spotted easily.

[ghost]

Still actual.

[dstftw]

-F, --list-formats               List all available formats